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Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Fauna of the Amazon rainforest; List of butterflies of the Amazon River basin and the Andes; A. Acalle (sponge)
The Amazon rainforest is a species-rich biome in which thousands of species live, including animals found nowhere else in the world. To date, there is at least 40,000 different kinds of plants, 427 kinds of mammals, 1,300 kinds of birds, 378 kinds of reptiles, more than 400 kinds of amphibians, and around 3,000 freshwater fish are living in Amazon.
The lilacine amazon is a small parrot, approximately 34 cm long when mature, with primarily green plumage. Like the red-lored amazon, it has red lores and yellow cheeks; its distinguishing features include a fully black beak, and lilac-tipped feathers on its crown. [41] [42] Western Ecuador to extreme south-western Colombia. [42] Diademed amazon
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]
Pages in category "Birds of the Amazon rainforest" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 524 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Night monkeys have large brown eyes; the size improves their nocturnal vision increasing their ability to be active at night. They are sometimes said to lack a tapetum lucidum, the reflective layer behind the retina possessed by many nocturnal animals. [8] Other sources say they have a tapetum lucidum composed of collagen fibrils. [9]
An immense number of bird species live in the Amazon rainforest and river basin (an area which is nominally home to one out of every ten known species of animal). [1] Over 1,300 of these species are types of birds, which accounts for one-third of all bird species in the world.
Amazon kingfisher A male at Iberá Wetlands, Corrientes Province, Argentina A female at San Ignacio, Belize Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Coraciiformes Family: Alcedinidae Subfamily: Cerylinae Genus: Chloroceryle Species: C. amazona Binomial name Chloroceryle amazona (Latham, 1790 ...